By a file are you meaning they have an a#? If so this would not mean citizenship residents are given a's upon entering the US. When they become citizens that same a# is listed on their certificate of naturalization.

DaniVerde wrote:I was beginning to wonder if that could possibly be the contents of this file: a birth abroad certificate...

Has anyone had any experience with this? Or with making a FOIA request?

Hi DaniVerde,

Any progress with your FOIA request?

I am also in the same boat as you. I did a search for my grandmother, and no C-file was found, only an A-file. She also was technically a US Citizen from birth even though she was born in Italy, since her father had naturalized prior to her birth.

I am wondering what the A-file could possibly contain, and whether or not it could make or break my case.

I just got back the results today....that was a 7 month processing time, and it was on the "Fast Track" :p

The contents were exactly as I'd guessed-a Certificate of Citizenship, which was issued instead of a Certificate of Birth Abroad. So in other words, all the family stories were accurate, and my dad was a "Dual Citizen" from birth, and I should be good to go!

The results were sent to me on a CD-a scan, decent enough quality

MisterC, out of curiosity, if your grandma wasn't an Italian citizen at birth, how are you claiming? Is she not in your direct line?

I just got back the results today....that was a 7 month processing time, and it was on the "Fast Track" :p

The contents were exactly as I'd guessed-a Certificate of Citizenship, which was issued instead of a Certificate of Birth Abroad. So in other words, all the family stories were accurate, and my dad was a "Dual Citizen" from birth, and I should be good to go!

The results were sent to me on a CD-a scan, decent enough quality

MisterC, out of curiosity, if your grandma wasn't an Italian citizen at birth, how are you claiming? Is she not in your direct line?

Just to clarify, if a child is born in Italy before 1948 to an Italian father, child loses Italian citizenship when an absent father naturalizes while child is still in Italy. Minor child does not have to enter the USA for Italian citizenship to be lost. If child remains in Italy until age of majority, child is given the opportunity to renounce newly acquired citizenship and choose Italian instead.

I just got back the results today....that was a 7 month processing time, and it was on the "Fast Track" :p

The contents were exactly as I'd guessed-a Certificate of Citizenship, which was issued instead of a Certificate of Birth Abroad. So in other words, all the family stories were accurate, and my dad was a "Dual Citizen" from birth, and I should be good to go!

The results were sent to me on a CD-a scan, decent enough quality

MisterC, out of curiosity, if your grandma wasn't an Italian citizen at birth, how are you claiming? Is she not in your direct line?

Just to clarify, if a child is born in Italy before 1948 to an Italian father, child loses Italian citizenship when an absent father naturalizes while child is still in Italy. Minor child does not have to enter the USA for Italian citizenship to be lost. If child remains in Italy until age of majority, child is given the opportunity to renounce newly acquired citizenship and choose Italian instead.

Just to clarify, none of that actually pertains to me.

My father was born from an American mother and Italian father in 1940 in Italy, and went to the US at the age of 16, using his US passport, by himself, to make a new life.

During the mass emigration from Italy during the century between 1876 to 1976, the U.S. was the largest single recipient of Italian immigrants in the world. However, their impact was not as great as countries like Argentina and Brazil. That was due to the fact that hundreds of thousands of immigrant...

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